Collective traces

A ceramic installation within a museum context which developed ideas about the overlap between archaeology and

psychoanalysis by exploring the relevance of archaic objects to a contemporary artist and the significance of the emotional attachment that humans project onto objects. This project engages with current debates within both the broad spectrum of visual culture and, more specifically, the discipline

of ceramics, about the relationship between the artist and the museum and the use of installation within the discipline.

Brown’s response to the everyday nature and intimate scale of the Petrie Museum’s collection of Egyptian artefacts resulted in

an installation of small-scale clay figures placed on everyday kitchen chairs surrounded by grave goods which were inspired by